Life begins: being born and growing up, sentence 7

Some children are adopted: they join a family that did not give birth to them, and they are just as much part of it.

Who acts: children, family · What happens: adopt, join, not give, be · To what, where: children, family, birth, much part

This is a sentence of the lesson «Life begins: being born and growing up» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 adopted	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 adopted	aux:pass
4	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 join	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 join	nsubj
7	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 adopted	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 family	det
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 join	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 give	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 give	advmod
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 family	acl:relcl
14	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 give	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 part	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 part	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 part	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 part	cop
21	just	just	ADV	_	24 part	advmod
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 part	amod
24	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 join	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 part	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 adopted	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	adopt	present · passive		some children			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	join	present	children = child	a family			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient
3	not give	past · do-support	a family	birth	children = child		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to they=Recipient
4	is a	present	children = child	much part		of part	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:7.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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